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old judaeo-spanish yegüeňd ‘mess, dish‘

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 April 2026

Yakov Malkiel*
Affiliation:
University of California

Extract

The derivation of Portuguese iguaria from Late Latin iecuāria, proposed LANG. 20.108-30, receives support from the discovery, in an ancient Judaeo-Spanish Bible translation (Escorial MS I.j.4 of the early 14th century, fol. 22a, line 35), of the two variant forms yguaria and yegueria, i.e. yegüería. The text is as yet unpublished; I owe knowledge of the passage under study to the courtesy of Professor O. H. Hauptmann, who has specialized in this field. The sentence (Genesis 43:34) reads as follows: Et fizo leuar yguarias delante el a ellos, e cresçio la yegueria de Benjamin mas que la yegueria de todos al çinco tanto, et beuieron vino e çidra con el ‘And he sent messes unto them from before him; but Benjamin's mess was five times so much as any of theirs, and they drank wine and cider with him.‘

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Copyright © 1945 Linguistic Society of America

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